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Music Lesson Plan

Title: Grizzly bear Grade Level: K

Source: mrsmiraclesmusicroom.com

Materials needed:
My Trip to the Mountains by Lynn Kleiner (song)

Procedure:

A.S: “What's an animal you can find in the forest? If you saw a sleeping bear
what would you do? How would you talk? Shhhhh”

1. Play the song through one time. Have the children just listen first
2. Listen again, pay attention to where it’s quiet and where it’s loud.
3. When you hear it sound quiet, tip toe. When it gets louder, stomp your
feet.
4. That is called “dynamic. Can everyone say dynamic?” Once again that
means when the music gets soft and then loud.
5. What are some of your best bear noises and movements?
6. Listen to the song one last time, when the bear wakes up we will all
do our favorite and best bear noises!

Closure:
what animal was this song about?
When in the song did we talk quietly?
when did we talk louder?

Educational Objective: ​ ​By the end of this lesson, students will have learned . . .
How to identify loud and soft sounds in a song. And that it is called dynamic. Also,
where bears live.
 Social/ Cognitive Physical Musical Non-Musical
Subjects
Emotional
Making Stomping Stomping National Standards “Core” Music Content
Standards Standards
bear noises along with
song Tip Toeing 1. Singing Creating Science
Imagine Animals
Stomping
together Bear Plan and Make

movements 2. Play Instruments Evaluate &

Refine
Tip toeing
together Present
3. Improvising
Performing
Select

Analyze
4. Composing
Interpret

Rehearse,
5. Reading & Evaluate, &
Refine
Notating
Present

Responding
6. ​Listening Select

Analyze

Interpret
7. ​Evaluating
Evaluate

Connecting
8. ​Integration Connect #10
(outside arts)
Connect #11

9. History/Culture